Word: manhattanization
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...Rose worked in midtown Manhattan last summer with the investment bank Bear Stearns in an attempt to get some real-world experience for his economics concentration. It was his first time in New York City, and Rose says he loved it. With the September 11th terror attacks, he also vividly remembers the weeks before the world changed...
...apartment down [in Lower Manhattan],” Rose says. “I was down there all the time. After work I’d go to a bar with some buddies, right at the base of the World Trade Center...
...found friends-of-friends on the casualties lists; in the same way that newspapers in the hinterlands carried stories of native sons and daughters living in New York, no matter how remotely they were affected by the attack; in the same way that we called long-neglected acquaintances in Manhattan, just to see how they were doing. We want to knit ourselves connections to a disaster that is in some ways very remote. It is hard to feel connected to a disaster that kills four people in a country of 278,000,000. How much more a part...
...grope for something substantial in the blizzard of images and information that make up contemporary life. At the center is Charlotte Swenson, an aging fashion model whose face must be reconstructed, with 80 titanium screws, after a pulverizing car accident. Though she looks perfectly normal, her former cronies in Manhattan's trendy night spots no longer recognize her, and her old life of amped-up photo shoots and weekends spent adorning the yachts of rich men slips away...
...elevator starter, someone who monitored the cars--and helped people if they got stuck--for 27 years at the north tower of the World Trade Center. His station was on the 78th floor, and his instinct to help kicked in when he exited the subway in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 and saw the gray ribbons of smoke streaming from the building. "I have to go in," he said to a friend. "I know people in there. Maybe I can help." Instead he soon found himself running from hell, trying to escape the crumbling tower, his beloved workplace...